Great Quotes

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Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world. — Ramana Maharshi
Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
Ramana Maharshi
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. — Gautama Buddha
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Gautama Buddha
He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. — Confucius
He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Confucius
The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart. — Mencius
The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.
Mencius
It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. — José Rizal
It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal.
José Rizal
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. — William Shakespeare
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. — J.K. Rowling
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
J.K. Rowling
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. — Victor Hugo
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Victor Hugo
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself. — Plato
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.
Plato
It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it. — Seneca
It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.
Seneca
The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. — Franz Kafka
The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground.
Franz Kafka
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. — Nelson Mandela
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela
The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. — Wole Soyinka
The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
Wole Soyinka
Silence is a source of great strength. — Lao Tzu
Silence is a source of great strength.
Lao Tzu
Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love. — Che Guevara
Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.
Che Guevara
If you don't give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure. — Jack Ma
If you don't give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure.
Jack Ma
The greatest hero is the one who serves his country and his people. — Jin Yong
The greatest hero is the one who serves his country and his people.
Jin Yong
To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves. — Federico García Lorca
To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.
Federico García Lorca
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. — Epictetus
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Epictetus
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of society. — B.R. Ambedkar
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of society.
B.R. Ambedkar
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. — Anatole France
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. — Cicero
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Cicero
Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel, for example. — Nazim Hikmet
Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel, for example.
Nazim Hikmet
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. — Mahatma Gandhi
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
Mahatma Gandhi
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong. — Swami Vivekananda
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Swami Vivekananda
Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved. — Martin Buber
Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
Martin Buber
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. — Confucius
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit. — Wayne Dyer
The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.
Wayne Dyer
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty. — Winston Churchill
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty.
Winston Churchill
The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable. — Rabindranath Tagore
The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
Rabindranath Tagore
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. — Oscar Wilde
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde
Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty. — Winston Churchill
Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty.
Winston Churchill
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. — Blaise Pascal
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Blaise Pascal
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love. — Mother Teresa
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
There is no great genius without a touch of madness. — Aristotle
There is no great genius without a touch of madness.
Aristotle
Don't be so humble — you are not that great. — Golda Meir
Don't be so humble — you are not that great.
Golda Meir
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. — Martin Buber
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
Martin Buber
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. — Mary Shelley
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
Mary Shelley
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